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Pak PM to be elected on Nov 21
Fresh Al-Qaida warning to USA Hebron under Israeli control
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6 more blast suspects identified Executed
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Pak PM to be elected on Nov 21 Islamabad, November 17 Election for the post of Prime Minister will be held on Thursday. Transfer of power will take place in Islamabad on November 22, Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider said addressing a meeting here last night. “Three political parties have emerged as main forces, we are hopeful that these three parties will work together in the larger national interest,” he said. Leaders of the top three parties — Pro-Musharraf Pakistan Muslim League, Qaide Azam (PML-Q), former premier Benazir Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and alliance of six hardline parties Muttahida Majlis-e Amal (MMA) — are expected to contest for the post of Prime Minister. PML-Q has nominated Mir Jafarullah Khan Jamali prime ministerial candidate. Jamali claimed to have support of over 170 members in 342-member Assembly. PPP, which emerged second in the October-10 poll with 81 members, has nominated Mukhdhum Amin Fahim its candidate for prime ministership while MMA with 60 members has named pro-Taliban Maulana Fazlur Rehman for the post. Meanwhile, officials have announced a revised schedule for the elections of Speaker and Deputy Speaker. As per the original announcement by pro tem speaker of the Assembly, Ilahi Bux Sumoroo, elections for the two posts were to be held tomorrow and filing of the nominations were to have been completed by noon today. According to the new schedule, the election of Speaker and Deputy Speaker will be held on November 19, when the session begins its sitting at 10:00 am, while the nomination papers will be received by Secretary Assembly in his chamber till 12:00 noon tomorrow. Both pro and anti-Musharraf parties held hectic consultations to win support for their respective candidates in the elections for the two crucial posts. The MMA has nominated senior leader of Jamat Islami, Liaqat Baluch, for the post of Speaker and Mr Hafiz Hussain Ahmad, a top leader of Jamat Ulema Islami, for Deputy Speaker’s post. The MMA leaders held talks with PML-Q and its allies to reach an agreement on the two posts and even offered to reach a compromise to scale down its opposition to Gen Pervez Musharraf’s presidency and his controversial constitutional amendments in order to win the posts. Mr Ahmad was quoted by media here as saying that the MMA was ready for a compromise provided Gen Musharraf scaled down his powers to dismiss Parliament to only to dismissing the government.
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Fresh Al-Qaida warning to USA Washington, November 17 The U.S. television network CNN late yesterday reported that Yosri Fouda, chief correspondent of the Arabic-language al-Jazeera broadcast station, said he had received a six-page letter believed to have been written by the Al-Qaida leadership that warned of such attacks In a CNN interview, Fouda said he believed the message was genuine. The letter demanded that the USA should halt its support for Israel in the conflict with the Palestinians and Russia must stop battling the Chechens. ‘Leave us (the Muslims) alone, or expect us in Washington and New York. Do not force us to put you in coffins,’ the letter was quoted as saying. Fouda said he had received the letter from reliable sources who had provided him with Al-Qaida information on several occasions in the past. He said the letter was another attempt by the Osama bin Laden-led led terrorist organisation to make its goals and demands clear and to warn what the results of ignoring them would be. The letter explained Al-Qaida’s hostility toward the USA and Israel and verbally attacked US President George W. Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
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Hebron under Israeli control Jerusalem, November 17 Palestinian residents of Hebron awoke to a strict curfew today, with Israeli tanks patrolling most streets in both Israeli and Palestinian sides of the city. Israeli Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said today that the peace agreement outlining the division of control in the city which he had signed as Prime Minister in 1997 was rescinded. Jewish settlers in the volatile city called for revenge at a rally yesterday night, recalling past rampages through Palestinian neighbourhoods, after the Israeli forces were killed a day earlier when gunmen used Jewish worshippers to lure the forces into a lethal trap. Israeli soldiers arrested today Palestinian suspects and relatives of the three gunmen, who were killed in the Friday shootout. The Israelis destroyed at least two houses and uprooted an olive grove the gunmen used as cover. The houses belonged to militants of Islamic Jihad, the group that took responsibility for the attack. The Israeli forces closed a liaison office in Hebron, ordering Palestinian officers who coordinated activities with Israelis to leave, Army Radio reported. Hebron is a tense flashpoint, the only West Bank city divided into Israeli and Palestinian-controlled zones. The Israeli soldiers control the city centre where about 450 Jewish settlers, including many extremists, live in the midst of more than 1,00,000 Palestinians, many of them fundamentalist Muslims. Tanks were located in all sections of the city today. Violence erupts frequently. Palestinian gunmen fire at the Jewish enclaves from hilltops on their side of the city. Settlers often rampage through the Palestinian outdoor market. In 1994, an American-born Jewish settler killed 29 Muslim worshippers at the city’s hotly disputed holy site, the tomb of the biblical Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and three of their wives. The US State Department denounced the Friday ambush as a “heinous crime.” It came just after a mission by a State Department official, David Satterfield, who met with Israelis and Palestinians to discuss a blueprint for a peace agreement.
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6 more blast suspects identified Denpasar, November 17 The new suspects are Indonesian and none of them has been detained so far, chief Indonesian police investigator IMade Mangku Pastika told a press conference here with the Australian police. He said a man known as Imam Samudra masterminded the October 12 car bombing which killed more than 190 persons, including more than 80 Australian tourists.
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Executed Pak national to be
buried tomorrow Quetta, November 17 Mir Aimal Kasi was killed by lethal injection in a Virginia jail on Friday for the 1993 murders of two Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employees. The body was due to arrive in
Quetta, at 1530 IST after flying via the country’s commercial capital Karachi. The funeral would take place late tomorrow afternoon if there were no delays to the flights, he added. “People have asked us to make arrangements for it to be held at an open place, so the family decided that it will be held at the Quetta stadium,” Naseebullah said.
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